Vivid Sydney
2015
Thomas Lee
User Experience, UI Concept, Photography
Dominique Lee
User Experience, Lighting
Creative Director: Jonathan Key
Project Manager: Annika Jayne Harrisson
Animation: Jonathan Key, Andrew Noel, James van den Elshout
Programming: Yasin Masukor
Photography: Victor Caringal, Jonathan Key
Music: Peter Covington
Copywriting: Victor Caringal, Annika Jayne Harrisson
Video: Jonathan Key
Threads is an interactive installation where participants collaborate to create an immersive musical lightshow that fosters engagement. Watch as lines, shapes and particles intertwine to form a four bar masterpiece.
The threads of light created by each participant signify the connections and relationships that individuals experience in life. The threads intertwine to produce a brighter and more colourful environment for all. The work was created by Resonance, a collective comprising a diverse team of designers working across visual, spatial, aural and interactive design. The team’s ethos is that personal connections are important contributors to happiness.
Built in 1913, Cleland Bond is a heritage-listed building located at the heart of the Sydney suburb of The Rocks. This venue was our first preference, and we were very fortunate to have our installation housed in this historic location. It was the ideal spot as it was central to the Vivid festival, as well as being indoor to protect our electronic equipments from the weather.
Threads uses two touch-screen tablets that allow participants to draw 'threads' which generates music and animations. The program is a custom built app which is housed in the cloud and are synced to the tablets via Wifi. Each tablet is installed on a lit metal plynth which house the speaker units to provide the audio experience. The animations are displayed on the wall as a 100-inch coloured projection.
